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JOHN MOHENRY AND JAMES ODONNELL, OF CATAWIS SA, MISSOURI.

BAND-CUTTER AND FEEDER FOR THRASHING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,472, dated June 3, 1890.

Application filed time 20, 1889.

Serial No. 314,954. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J OHN MOHENRY- and JAMES ODoNNELL, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Oatawissa, in the county of Franklin and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Band-Cutters and Feeders for Thrashing-Machines;andwedoherebydeclare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had'to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in band-cutters and feeders for thrashing-machines, the same being designed more especially as an improvement upon our patent dated May 5, 1885,

and numbered 317,401; and it consists in the construction and combination of the parts, as-

will be hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of our improved thrashing -machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section;

'Fig. 4, a detail perspective view of one of the feeders detached.

A refers to the legs of the frame, braced by longitudinal beams a a,between which are located vertical beams a, havingbearings or boxes fora shaftB. Tothese legs andbeamsare also secured bearings for transverse shafts, to be hereinafter described. The upper beams a support a suitable side and top frame, and at the front or extended ends of these beams are secured side tables 0 O and vertical side boards A, between which is secured an incline -D, provided on its upper surface with inclined metallic blades d d.

To the top or covering boards of the main frame are secured on each side thereof standards 6 e, which support and maintain in position horizontal bars E E, each bar being provided with spring-arms E, which extend from the bar down to and abut against the inclined tables C C, upon which the straw is first placed. These inclined tables 0 have formed in the same slots or slits 0, through which pass serrated feeding-blades F. The inner lower ends of these blades are secured upon crank-shafts f, which are journaled beneath the inclined tables 0, while the upper or outer ends of the blades are secured to shafts f which are provided adjacent to the feeding-blades F with anti-friction rollers f which play in curved slots 9, formed in the beams which support the tables. The shafts f are each provided with pulleys, over which pass driving-belts F, said belts also passing over pulleys located on the ends of the shaft G, journaled upon the front supporting-legs A A. This shaft G is provided with a pulley, over which passes a belt G, which also passes over a pulley attached to the shaft H. The shaft H, which is journaled under the lower horizontal beam a,is provided centrally with an eccentric cam, to which is secured a connecting-rod 72, said connecting-rod being pivotally attached to the under side of the incline D, said incline being suspended at its front end by links 1' 11, which lie in recesses formed in the side pieces A of the frame. This incline D merely rests at its lower end upon a transverse beam I, upon which it slides freely when the upper end thereof oscillates longitudinally, as it does when the shaft H is rotated.

J refers to the shaft carrying the cutters j, which shaft is rotated to cause the cutters to strike the bands which bind the sheaves to sever them as they pass down the incline on their way to the distributing-drum, mounted on the shaft B, said drum having teeth b, which pass between the pins 10, located upon the transverse bar K.

Power is applied from the thrashing-machine to the shaft 13, and communicated therefrom by the belt B to the pulley J on the shaft J, and suitable belting connects the shaft J with the shaft H.

In operation the sheaves are fed into the apparatus by being placed upon the inclined tables 0, and the serrated feeding-blades grasp the sheaves and carry them under the spring-arms E upon the incline D. The inclined blades (I serve to keep the sheaves in proper position, so that the straw which makes up the sheaves will lie longitudinally upon the incline D, and as said incline is operated the sheaves will be fed downwardly straw which is then loosened passes to the distributing-drum and is fed thereby into the thrashing-n1achine.

Above the incline D, to the side pieces A are secured inclined strips A which will prevent the straw getting between the sides of the incline and the side pieces A of the frame. To better accomplish this end the strips A are beveled, as shown.

The spring-arms E permit sheaves to be thrown upon the tables 0, and will hold the sheaves upon said table until they are grasped by the serrated feeding-blades and drawn beneath the spring-arms.

Having thus described our invention, What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a feeder and cutter for thrashing-inachines, the combination of the inclined feeding-tables 0, having slots 0, serrated feedingbladcs F, mounted on crank-shafts at one end and at the other end on shaft-carryin rollers which engage with curved slots, so that when the crankshafts are rotated the serrated edges of the feeding-blades will be projected through the slots and moved in the direction of the feed, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, in a band-cutter and feeder, of the revolving shaft J carrying outtersj, an oscillating incline moving in side guides, links 1' 1', connected at each side of said incline near its outer end, the inner end of said incline resting freely on beam I beneath the shaft J, slotted tables 0 C at each side of said incline and inclining toward the same, serrated blades F F, and crank-shafts and guides for reciprocating the blades to intermittently move them through the slots, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN MCIIENRY. J AMES ODONNELL.

\Vitnesses:

A. II. DANIEL, THOMAS WooDY. 

